Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: The letter the Rebbe wrote to teachers; the question of a Chicago rabbi about sermons; the tactic Rabbi Mordechai Hodakov suggested; and the meaning of Pirkei Avos. Video
How Many Shabbos Candles to Light
Stump the Rabbi: How many Shabbos candles are meant to be lit every Friday night and what are the reasons for it? Video
Chabad & Friends: Working Together
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The Yeshivos letter by Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary (Lubavitch), Rabbi Avraham Kalminowitz (Mir) and Rabbi Aaron Kotler (Lakewood) sent Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Lewin and Nohum Goldmann. Video
Are Older Singles Looked Down Upon?
Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Art in Judaism, Rabbis with different standards, receiving gifts, older singles, Chassidus not being accessible, and Jewish Extremism. Video
The Rebbe Asked, “Why is He Asking Again?”
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: The answer to a mother in Boro Park who came to the Rebbe for the first time about her son in Switzerland; the condition of making requests from "the king in the field" during Elul. Video
What R’ Mendel Futerfas Did Without a Crowd
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: The Rebbe's reaction to Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel translating the Tanya into English for the first time in 1962; the meaning of a birthday; what the Mashpia R' Mendel Futerfas did when a crowd didn't show up. Video
Mezonos or Hamotzi?
Watch: An excerpt from a Shiur given by Chassidus teacher Rabbi Naftali Silberberg at the Baal Shem Tov Library in Flatbush, New York. Video
The Rebbe’s Deep Respect For His Childhood Teacher
Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro: Why did the Rebbe stand for a 2-hour Yechidus with R' Schneur Zalman Vilenkin? And why did the Litvish Telshe Rosh Yeshiva send a bochur from Yeshiva in Cleveland to the Rebbe in Crown Heights? Video
The Dowry Rebbetzin Chana Requested
Watch for Chov Av: Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro. The astonishing comment Reb Levik Schneerson said about his son, the Rebbe; the teacher of the Rebbe and his brothers; the dowry Rebbetzin Chana requested; and the significance of the number 9. Video
A Teaching From the Rebbe’s Father
Watch: Rabbi Moishe New of the Montreal Torah Center teaches a lesson from the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. Video
Chabad & Friends: Purpose of Marriage
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The purpose of marriage - Rabbi Shmuel Mendlowitz of Torah Vodaas and an unknown Maamar during a Yechidus with the Rebbe Raayatz. Video
If No Wine is Available, What Can be Used for Kiddush or Havdalah?
Stump the Rabbi: If no wine is available, what can be used for kiddush or havdalah? Video
Watch: Shiur on Reb Levik’s Torah
Princeton Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov presents a shiur in Yiddish on 21 questions and 1 answer of the Rebbe’s father, R’ Levi Yitzchok Schneerson OBM, at Heichal Menachem in Monsey. Video
Talking Politics Without Being Political
Postponed: Show has been postponed until a later date. Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: Chof Av, skeptics, the public role of women, davening in the modern world, security in Crown Heights and talking politics. Video
The Favor the Rebbe Asked in Paris in 1937
Shabbos Night Live with Rabbi Shmuel Butman - marking the yartzeit of the Rebbe's father, R' Levi Yitzchok Schneerson OBM: The favor the Rebbe asked, the message of both names Levi and Yitzchok, and a hidden reference to the Rebbe's mother. Video
Watch: Guest at Baal Shem Tov Library
Watch: Tu B'Av In the Light of Baal Shem Tov with Rabbi Chaim Leib Katz at a farbrengen at The Baal Shem Tov Library in Brooklyn. Live
Revival of the Dead: How Will It Happen
Watch: If a widow remarries, to whom will she return when Moshiach comes? A Shiur on Techiyas Hameisim and Gilgulim by Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky. Video
‘Came As a Misnaged, Left a Chossid’
Shabbos Night Live (post Tisha B'Av) with Rabbi Shmuel Butman: A personal account of a bochur from Bnei Brak and does the word Ami ("Nachamu Nachamu Ami") have another meaning? Video
7 Classes on Tisha B’Av
Watch: Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, Director of Chabad @ Flamingo in Toronto, presents a series of 7 classes on the destruction of Jerusalem and Beitar according to Gemara and Chassidus. Video
Is Tisha B’Av Not a Day of Mourning
Photos: Shimi Kutner
Stump the Rabbi: Is it true that Chasidim don't consider Tisha B'Av a day of mourning? Video
Video: 40 Years Wandering?
The Late Parsha Show with Eli Weiss: For 40 years in the desert- we definitely were not just "wandering". But what was going on? What lesson were we learning? What work were we doing? For what have we been in exile now longer than 40 years?? Let's get in Moshiach Mode and end this thing. Video
2 Things to do in the 9 Days
An excerpt from a Shiur given by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg at The Baal Shem Tov Library on Avenue J in Brooklyn, NY. Video
The Rebbe’s Explanation on Comforting Mourners
Now on Thursdays: Historic Treasures by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro. Why do we call it "the three weeks," and what did the Rebbe teach when he paid a Shiva call on the Satmar Rebbe. Video
Why Learn About Bais Hamikdosh In the 3 Weeks
Photo: Mendy Hechtman
Stump the Rabbi: Why do we specifically use the 3 weeks to learn about the Beis Hamikdash? Video
Why a Siyum If We Don’t Eat Meat
Stump the Rabbi: Why do we make a Siyum during the 9 days if we are not going to eat meat anyway? Video